About International Medical CorpsInternational Medical Corps is a global, humanitarian, nonprofit organization dedicated to saving lives and relieving suffering through health care training and relief and development programs.

Established in 1984 by volunteer doctors and nurses, International Medical Corps is a private, voluntary, nonpolitical, nonsectarian organization. Its mission is to improve the quality of life through health interventions and related activities that build local capacity in underserved communities worldwide. By offering training and health care to local populations and medical assistance to people at highest risk, and with the flexibility to respond rapidly to emergency situations, International Medical Corps rehabilitates devastated health care systems and helps bring them back to self-reliance.

Program BackgroundWhen catastrophe hits, International Medical Corps is often one of the first humanitarian aid organizations on the scene—providing rapid and effective aid that saves lives, reduces suffering, and promotes self-reliance.

International Medical Corps has established an International Emergency Roster to ensure that emergency positions are filled in a timely manner with professionally qualified, gender balanced, geographically diverse, linguistically able, and a highly motivated corps of professionals. The team includes coordinators, logisticians, doctors and water and sanitation experts. It also includes specialists who focus on protection, prevention of sexual violence and aid for rape survivors and mental health.

Selected Emergency Response Team (ERT) members are always on standby to deploy to a crisis within 72 hours, whether they are launching into new areas or lending support to International Medical Corps teams already on the ground. International Medical Corps maintains a roster of volunteers, staff and available specialists who have been interviewed and have completed pre-deployment paperwork, orientation and training. The roster is updated on regular basis as new responders are identified and members update their areas of expertise and other relevant information. Through this expression of interest, applicants are encouraged to submit their profiles so that their information is readily available in the International Medical Corps applicant tracking system.

Job Summary**NOTE** Candidates applying to this position are indicating that they are interested in being considered for the International Medical Corps standby roster for emergency response. Roster members will only be contacted when there is an emergency response need for which the responder is qualified for. This position will not be compensated unless responders are deployed to an emergency response.

The Emergency Monitoring and Evaluation Coordinator, in collaboration with the Team Leader and Technical staff will be responsible for overseeing the implementation of effective monitoring systems to collect basic information about activities in the initial phase of emergency response. As the response continues, the M&E Coordinator will be responsible for establishing a sustainable monitoring and evaluation system in coordination with local government, relevant government UN agencies including the analysis, interpretation and communication of information in a way that promotes informed decision-making for on-going and future programmatic activity.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function with or without reasonable accommodation. The duties and responsibilities listed are representative of the nature and level of work assigned and are not necessarily all inclusive.

Establish and oversee the M&E emergency portfolio, including PMPs, frameworks, surveys, among others;

Manage and supervise national and expatriate M&E staff;

Ensure quality of quantitative and qualitative information reporting from various technical and management staff;

Coordinate with Team Leader/Program Coordinator, M&E HQ focal point and information management staff on the reporting of information in external and internal reports;

Triangulate situational analysis with programs for regular reporting;

Disseminate qualitative and quantitative results using an established dashboard system;

Collaborate with program managers in data quality maintenance and reporting;

Train national and expat staff on routine monitoring procedures to ensure program quality;

Collaborate with the technical staff to streamline qualitative and quantitative information sharing at the national level;

Establish and oversee beneficiary feedback mechanisms and other accountability measures.

Compliance & EthicsPromotes and encourages a culture of compliance and ethics throughout International Medical Corps. As applicable to the position, maintains a clear understanding of International Medical Corps’ and donor compliance and ethics standards and adheres to those standards. Conducts work with the highest level of integrity. Communicates these values to staff and to partners and requires them to adhere to these values.

Qualifications:

Masters level or higher degree in epidemiology, public health, social sciences, health information management, biostatistics or a related discipline;

At least five years of applied experience with a humanitarian organization designing, implementing and overseeing monitoring and evaluation tasks, preferably in [health, mental health and psychosocial support services, protection, GBV, WASH, nutrition sectors]; or equivalent combination of education and experience;

Experience in managing, training and motivating multiethnic and multicultural teams.

International Medical Corps is a ‘first-responder’ both to natural and man-made disasters and has a mandate of working in remote locations. The organization has a comprehensive security management policy and plan in place and committed to do everything possible within its remit to ensure safety and security. Notwithstanding, the mandate and programming choices of International Medical Corps require staff with a high degree of resilience, sound judgement, the ability to move fast, and the willingness to travel and work in unstable situations and harsh conditions.

International Medical Corps is proud to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national or ethnic origin, age, disability or status as a veteran.